Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Britain's butchers say they're "living in fear" after a spate of violent attacks they say were committed by militant vegans who are unhappy with their meat-based businesses. – DW

Now I have nothing against vegetarians or vegans, but you have to admit, there’s something funny about the phrase “militant vegans.”

Although, there was Nasim Aghdam who went on a rampage when she thought YouTube censored her vegan videos:

The woman responsible for wounding three people at YouTube headquarters Tuesday was a vegan activist angered by policy changes that hampered her ability to profit from the videos she posted on the platform.

Nasim Aghdam, a 38-year-old San Diego resident who frequently made videos focused on the evils of meat consumption, accused YouTube of discrimination and arbitrary censorship in multiple posts on her personal website and social-media accounts.

“Youtube [sic] filtered my channels to keep them from getting views!” Aghdam wrote on her website. “There is no free speech in real world & you will be suppressed for telling the truth that is not supported by the system. – National Review

She’s certainly right about that last part, but I never realized that “the system” was opposed to vegans; I thought content suppression was reserved for conservatives.

But apparently vegans in Britain have decided to take matters into their own hands and fight “violence” with violence:

Small businesses, like Marlow Butchers in the town of Kent, have been vandalized with red paint. Other butchers say vegan activists have threatened to burn down their homes. Farmers who cultivate livestock for slaughter say they've been threatened, and even truck drivers who haul live animals to meat processing plants have had their windshields cracked by marauding groups of animal rights activists clad in black face masks. – DW